The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed - A Conversation with Jessica Lahey

Jessica Lahey is a mother to two children and has been a middle and high school teacher for over twenty years. A few years ago, she began to notice an obvious and startling fear of failure in both her own children and her students - a fear, that had the potential to undermine their autonomy, competence, motivation and their relationships with the adults in their lives. She suspected that that fear of failure was directly related to the way we parent. A deep dive into the research bore her hypothesis out, and resulted in her New York Times bestselling book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. Since the book’s publication, Jessica has been traveling across the US and around the world helping parents and teachers learn how to foster deep, meaningful learning by offering kids more autonomy at home and in school.